@billyrough.bsky.social
Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
@kathrynmaris.bsky.social
Writer (poetry, criticism, translation); poetry editor at AFM.
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends NYRB, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at the University of Tulsa; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
@edinburghbookshop.bsky.social
Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
@spencro.bsky.social
Former Eng Lit academic. I have written about Ford Madox Ford, Louis de Bernieres, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly about Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian. robspence.org.uk Reviews at shinynewbooks.co.uk
@brianjaffa.bsky.social
Edinburgh-based journalist, arts-follower, traveller-around-Scotland. Any views expressed are mine alone. https://www.heraldscotland.com
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. No kings | No slop | Never again for anyone
@oxfordpoetry.bsky.social
Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK, and one of the oldest in the world. Est. 1910. https://linktr.ee/OxfordPoetry
@scottlyall.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Modern and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. Writes about Scottish interwar literary revival and modernism. Co-edits 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/scott-lyall
@timscottwriter.bsky.social
As Plath (nearly) said, I know I'm a writer because I get rejections... On that basis alone, I'm smashing it.
@joedunthorne.bsky.social
Poet and novelist. New book, Children of Radium, my first nonfiction, out now. Order here: https://linktr.ee/joedunthorne Old books: Submarine/Wild Abandon/The Adulterants/O Positive www.joedunthorne.com
@anjalijoseph.bsky.social
Award-winning writer of four novels & the Substack The Writing Life. Doodler.
@chrissywilliams.bsky.social
Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams
@padrig.bsky.social
Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. New book of essays, Ghost Stations, out in 2025 with CB Editions. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
@camille-francois.bsky.social
Writer, Dr Poems in The TLS, Oxford Poetry, Mslexia, Poetry Wales, Magma Poetry, Wild Court, The North
@timhannigan.bsky.social
Writer: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, Indonesia; academic stuff on travel writing. From Cornwall. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo
@jlimburg.bsky.social
Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
@simonbarraclough.bsky.social
Poet, writer, tutor, editor. Fourth collection Divine Hours out now from Broken Sleep Books. Reader for The Literary Consultancy & others. Co-editor of Project Abeona (Humanity in Deep Space). Member of CIEP. Open to collabs. www.simonbarraclough.com
@sheribenning.bsky.social
Writer | Field Requiem (Carcanet), The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet), et al. | Words in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al. https://www.sheribenning.com/
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
@ionafyfe.bsky.social
Rector of University of Aberdeen 🎓 Scottish singer | MG ALBA Musician of the Year | @rcstweets alumna | Join my Patreon for exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/ionafyfe
@alicestainer.bsky.social
Poet; lecturer; Victorianist; singer; Scottish dancer; nature lover; wine or tea, that is the question; the sea, the sea; land of the mountain & the flood.
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@marrrtha.bsky.social
Editor, writer and translator. The Poems of St John of the Cross forthcoming (Penguin Classics, 2026) marthasprackland.co.uk
@falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social
Poetry Group set up in 1972 by Peter Redgrove. Meet 5 Times a month to share critique and write together. Occasional events and festivals Now a Stanza Group
@teddyjamieson.bsky.social
Writer for The Herald, The Sunday Post, Nutmeg & anyone else who will have me. Getting on a bit. Contact me @ teddyjamieson@yahoo.com
@roshnigallagher.bsky.social
Poet from Leeds based in Edinburgh (she/her) Debut collection (Bloodaxe, 2026) Bird Cherry (Verve, 2023) https://roshnigallagher.com/
@patkane.bsky.social
@taylor-strickland.bsky.social
Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
@tarnnation.bsky.social
Poet and academic with words in The TLS, New Statesman, New Republic, Poetry Review, Poetry London, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Asst Editor: Green Letters📚 https://linktr.ee/tarnmacarthur
@stephen-moran.bsky.social
London Irish. Published poetry & fiction. Stephen Moran's Museum of Illusions: www.sjmoran.com. Enquire within.
@roseannewatt.bsky.social
Writer, poet, musician from Shetland. Minoritised language, islandness and illness. She/shö/her. Author of multi award-winning poetry collection 'Moder Dy' (Polygon, 2019). Jerwood Poetry Award Winner 2024. https://linktr.ee/roseannewatt
@pacificraft.bsky.social
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet in the UK. Toitū Te Tiriti!
@northseapoets.bsky.social
Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars. northseapoets.com
@steveaylett.bsky.social
Writer of LINT, The Book Lovers, Slaughtermatic etc, and Hyperthick comic. Weird/SF/slipstream/satire. Neurospicy, tall, in Scotland. 🪐📚 www.steveaylett.com
@dorothylawrenson.bsky.social
Writer, editor and proofreader. Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews. www.dorothylawrenson.com
@edmorgantrust.bsky.social
Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
@mptmagazine.bsky.social
Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy. modernpoetryintranslation.com
@blue-sky-aphorisms.bsky.social
A commonplace of found aphorisms & proverbs. "Aphorisms are like airplanes, they stay up only while they are in motion." —Nabokov "All songs are proverbial— those of birds, rivers, winds, just listen . . ." —DW
@ianrankin1.bsky.social
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
@brendashaughnessy.bsky.social
Poet, friend. Wrote TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016 CCP) Our Andromeda (2012 CCP) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008 CCP) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999 FSG). In UK—Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems (2022 Bloodaxe.)
@joriegraham.bsky.social
Resilience requires Imagination. Resistance requires Imagination. Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
@abrackenbury.bsky.social
Poet & broadcaster. 10th collection 'Thorpeness', Carcanet, 2022. Currently finishing non-fiction prose book 'Village,including 'witches', wheelbarrows and a pioneering woman archaeologist with a houseful of treasures in Long Lane...